Sudoku.com - Number Game Reviews

I have never played sudoku before and I decided to try to learn it. I got Sudokucom and chose easy mode. i read the rules and started playing. It was discouraging to see that it only let me make 3 mistakes 😔. you should make some sort of free play/practice board where people don’t get a limited number of mistakes (but they don’t get stars/points for playing). it would be helpful for beginners like me who don’t really care about stars/points at first they just want to learn how to play. also, the ads and their placement is really annoying. the banner-style ads that are at the bottom while you play are in the way. if i try to click a number and i press too low, i click an ad! i know you have to put ads to get money but please put the banner style ones at the top of the playing board where people will see them but not click them on accident. also, the video ads are really long and there are LOTS of them. i really don’t want to pay FIVE DOLLARS to get rid of them. other than those complaints i have, Sudokucom is very nice and neat. i like being able to change the board color for free. the erasing sound is very nice. i haven’t tried any challenges yet because i am on my first puzzle, but they sound interesting. the hints are terrific! it suggests where to put a number and explains why it put it there. i’m glad i decided to learn how to play sudoku! 😀

I’ll preface this by saying I love Sudokucom , very seldom do I run into any bugs or glitches, I enjoy the daily challenges and stats that are kept, and it's an app that I use pretty much every day. It's well maintained and could use some more interesting mechanics but I trust in the developers to make Sudokucom better as time goes by. The one issue I have with it is the introduction of ads in the middle of a game. when I get on a roll and start filling in cells it never fails that an ad will just pop up and ruin the momentum and fun. at that point I just close Sudokucom and play later in a few hours because I refuse to sit through an ad in the middle of my puzzle. I get that in this era there has to be constant monetization but surely the puzzle itself, from start to finish, should be off limits. I’m fine watching an ad in between games but I won't tolerate it in the middle of a game. that needs to be rectified and I’ll bet every user agrees on that point. I look forward to seeing the advances made on Sudokucom but I don't see myself sticking around with it if the avaricious nature of the new ad campaign is going to continue unabated. Keep up the good work and lose the mid-game ads.

First, with a couple exceptions I really like Sudokucom . It has great features. For the challenge I like to play it with no extra tools or hints that I’ve made a wrong entry. At times I get to the end and there’s a problem I can’t undo easily so I just want to start over. I can’t see how to do that without “un-doing” every move, or selecting each square and hitting erase. Please add a button to clear the puzzle to start over.

My second concern is irritating enough to delete Sudokucom and find another game. On my IPhone 6s it’s the tight placement of the ad banner next to the number entry at the bottom of the screen. If I play with two hands inevitably I miss the number and hit the ad banner which takes me to another page. I understand the need for ads with a free game. But, that placement is so close that I mistakenly hit the ad many many times during a puzzle and I lose my place or thought process. It is maddening. I don’t even look at the ad, I get frustrated and immediately hit the button to return to sudoku. I’m glad you get the clicks for the advertising revenue but it feels like a setup with the layout so you get those clicks.

Please fix these. It would be a 5 Star review otherwise!

As I said, great Sudoku game, crisp and simple format, blessedly lacking the foo-foo weird variations of other apps. If you want pure sudoku without the other silliness, this is your app. But beware, as I have played and won about 900 expert level games, Sudokucom has grown like a sinister blob monster and has filled an insane 6.86 GB of storage on my iPhone, more than all my other apps combined! Tech support replies politely and speedily, but only action recommended is to delete and reload Sudokucom , losing all of your progress and trophies. You have to start all over. Explanation being it’s the ads filling and gumming up your OS. Heavy sigh... Only other criticism is I wish it had cell coloring ability so I could use advanced solving techniques taught by the brilliant Sudoku Swami. In any event, you’re going to love Sudokucom, if you’re a sudoku purist and use pure logic to solve puzzles. And if you get stuck, it does give you hints... but the price is ads! Storage-Stuffing ads!

I love Sudokucom! The events are awesome and the interface is super intuitive. Also, the smart hints that don’t just give you a number and actually show you the strategy are incredible!!!

One minor nitpick has to do with the tap-and-hold a number feature that allows you to quickly enter it into multiple cells. I love that when in the default entry mode, you can select a cell with a number already in it and see all of those numbered notes in bold on the other cells. Currently, when you tap-and-hold a digit, the cells containing that digit show a grey background (which is awesome!), I just wish the notes were also bolded. I find myself deselecting the held digit, tapping a cell to see the notes bolded, making a mental note of where I need to enter the new notes, and quickly going back to the held digit to enter them all (and mistakes get made!)

Thank you for the great app and actually responding to user reviews, it means a lot!

I spend so much time in Sudokucom, I find sudoku very soothing and the interface is smooth and great. (I’ve paid for it, because ads are not soothing and devs deserve money. And I appreciate something that doesn’t have microtransactions.)

I absolutely love the “killer” sudoku in the new event, and I hope they’re introduced as a regular option to play, because I’ve just finished the event and I already miss them!

My only real issue is that the 1 is so narrow and so close to the edge of the screen that it’s incredibly difficult for me to successfully hold it down to select it—a huge amount of the time I end up too far to the left and then when I try to correct I end up brushing 2 and it changes the number in whatever square I last entered and I rack up mistakes for no reason because I’m fighting with the interface. It would be nice to be able to rotate my phone sideways and have the numbers up the side of the puzzle instead.

Fantastic game, can’t stop playing!!! It’s my go to game!
However since your latest update while in the middle of playing the game, it keeps crashing.. the screen goes completely black except for the advertisements at the bottom of the screen!
I’ve tried closing Sudokucom and restarting the game but it happens again immediately after opening up the game. I’ve tried starting a new game and again the screen goes black all except for the advertisements at the bottom. Then I tried deleting Sudokucom and reinstalling it and guess what? It happens again!
No other apps do this on my iPad so I know it’s not the problem, plus if it were my iPad then the advertisements would go black too and they don’t. Every single time the screen goes black it still shows the advertisements at the bottom and the rest of the screen is black! I pray you get this fixed ASAP! This is my favorite game to play on a daily basis and since I couldn’t play using Sudokucom anymore, I was forced to download another sudoku app in order to get my daily sudoku fix. I will however continue to check Sudokucom regularly to see if the problem has been resolved or not but in the meantime I’ll be using another sudoku app!

The game functions well. It features settings to change whether the game is timed, whether you want limits on how many you get incorrect, along with lots of other options. It’s very simplistic without flashy colors, and has three different color options for different times of the day (white, yellow, black) similar to functions on an internet browser, so your eyes don’t strain from white light etc. It doesn’t take up much of my battery usage, and works on airplane mode/without data, so it’s nice for a flight or a road trip.

The single downside to Sudokucom is the ads before and/or after each puzzle is completed, and if you have a limit on how many you can get correct it plays an ad before you can continue, but again the limit can be turned off in the settings.

Overall, Sudokucom is fantastic and I definitely recommend downloading it if you are a fan of sudoku.

Longtime puzzler! I’ve been using this specific app for quite some time! I haven’t found one that’s comparable to it, however I wish there were either more than one puzzle for the daily challenge or more events. I love doing the events and I’ve only missed one since the start of the new year!
Even if they were just weekly events instead of specific holidays I would love that. There’s something really charming about reaching the end of the event and getting the medals.
Opening Sudokucom and clicking new game every time and then selecting the difficulty doesn’t have the same charm as working up from easy to hard as in the events. It’s a lot harder for me to keep track of how many puzzles I did in a day but starting new games and such.
Overall I really like Sudokucom and the design and layout. It’s easy to customize it a bit so you can make it more or less of a challenge, but I wish there was a bit more to the events.

Sudoku is my absolute favorite game, it trains your mind and helps build brain activity, as well as helps focusing on other things (like a break).

There are many sudoku games on the internet, and this one is by far my favorite. It has a lot of very customizable features, such as the background color and several other settings. I, however, have a few suggestions that I think could significantly improve the game.

I’ll start by mentioning a few quality of life features. One problem I have is that my grandparents often play sudoku on my iPhone, and they have massive fingers so always make mistakes because they miscible on a tile for a number. I would recommend a zoom feature by I don’t know, dragging with two fingers or something. It would help out larger people, and also I tend to work on a single square within the three by three, so it might also help me focus a more.

Another feature I might suggest would be the option to turn off the explanation for a hint. I know how to play sudoku, have since I was three or four years old. However, I sometimes just get stuck and need to use a hint. But the excessive explanation is too boring for me and I have to quickly click through it to continue playing, but I understand why the hint is right, so it just gets annoying.

Anyways, I hope y’all devs read this and consider my suggestions. It would certainly bring my rating up to a five out of five stars!

- Sathare

First off, I love Sudokucom. It has a simply beautiful interface and it’s easy to use. I’d definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a sudoku app.

My favorite part of Sudokucom is completing the seasonal events. They’re fun and I like collecting the medals. However, recently the number of levels in an event has been increasing and I think that having to complete 100 levels in a week to receive a “gold” is excessive. It’s doable, but it’s majorly time consuming (especially when people have work, etc). For me, I don’t really like getting bronze/silver so if I get past the “bronze level”, I’ll play for hours on end until I complete the event to get gold. But at that point, the fun is taken out of the game - I’m just playing to complete levels and it’s not enjoyable anymore. If the events continue to have an insane amount of levels, i probably just won’t start them anymore. In my opinion, the events should be more around 20-30 levels (at least <50).

I like brain games and Sudokucom is a decent digital version of sudoku but there are some strange problems. Example being the "limit mistakes" setting which does nothing; you can restart the game, wait, restart Sudokucom , no matter what you'll get screwed over by the mistakes. Hit one wrong button and the game boots you, and by mistake I mean hitting the wrong button, because sometimes the notes are off and you're just trying to mark a possibility, nope, you're a dunce for not seeing the slight difference in colour.

To be fair, this might just be me but the fact that I can't let myself make a few mistakes more than the crazy difficult tiny three limit is upsetting. The setting is there; why doesn't it work.

This is a big drawback for me but besides that Sudokucom is just fine: good UI design, nice looking, it's easy to tell when you've done right and what you started with, generally pretty good. But that one problem that I presume to be a glitch or a miscommunication really takes a lot out of it.

I’ve been using Sudokucom for at least two years (hey, I want that trophy at the end of the month/year!) and it has been appealingly consistent with updates and the ad placement doesn’t bother me in the slightest, mostly because it’s unobtrusive and doesn’t get in the way.

Edit 1: Still a great app and I do at least the daily challenge every day, if not more. That being said, with this most recent update (today is 20 May 2021), the style and buttons all changed. Normally this is fine, but in dark mode (which i have to use for my eyes ) where the background is dark grey and the numbers are white and pale blue, this most recent update means that the pencilled in numbers grey out to invisibility instead of highlighting brightly like they used to. Before, when I’d choose a number for final input (where it would go blue and easy to see), every other identical number on the entire board would be bright white. Now, it greys out and it’s impossible to see where matching numbers are across the board.

So I’ve been paying this game for awhile now, and after completing all the daily challenges possible (as of right now, 678), I think its a relatively good time to finally make a review.

I just want to saw that the minimalism feel of this game is just personally very good. Compared to other sudoku apps, I think Sudokucom nailed the note taking aspect especially, note taking is usually infuriating for me, but Sudokucom in my opinion is very easy to make quick, easy, and simple notes.

The reason I gave it 4/5 stars was:
1. Not enough sudoku diversity (i.e. more killer sudoku or maybe sudoku w/ chess twist, etc.)
2. The diversity Sudokucom does have is just the same easy-medium sudokus in the events and daily challenges, not really unique at all, I could just go to the regular easy / medium sudokus

What I do want to suggest:
1. New optional themes, provide choices for something other than minimalism or maybe different fonts)
2. More note-taking styles (i.e. highlighting could be added)
3. More creative sudokus

To clarify, I really like the minimalist look, and I don’t want Sudokucom to sacrifice its minimalistic look for a more crowded sudoku even if it meant more note-taking styles and etc., but if you can provide more choices, then please add more themes, note-taking styles, and etc. At the very least, please provide more diverse sudokus, your sudoku generator-bot is already nailing the difficulty pretty dang well already :P

I got Sudokucom a few months ago, having never played before. After playing for countless hours, I’m up to doing the expert puzzles. Much of my strategies have been from methods from the hints. However, sometimes the hint is to use “Bowman’s Bingo” which is basically guess and check, and it’s extremely impractical and rarely used. It gets kind of annoying when I get stuck and get this hint as it makes me feel like some puzzles are impossible without using this method. I’ve asked a few sudoku experts about some of these puzzles and they all have been able to find a much easier technique to solve them (even as simple as a skyscraper). I hope in future updates Sudokucom will incorporate more techniques into the hint system and eventually be able to get rid of Bowman’s bingo.

Edit: I don’t know when they added this, but there’s now horrendously offbeat music. It’s horrid to listen to and I can’t even focus on the puzzle. Please fix this ASAP!!! And I’ll put my rating back up to 4 stars when you do

I love Sudoku; it is one of my favorites and I play it quite a bit from many sources so I thought I would give your app a try. I chose easy for first game to allow me to see how your app operated in terms of filling in the grids. I had a bit of trouble with the game placing numbers in the chosen square; they landed in a square adjacent to where I chose. Quickly the game ended saying I had made three mistakes and game was over. They were not mistakes I made by choosing the wrong square intentionally but rather by a square inadvertently being touched or my not knowing exactly how your game operated. I do not like the feature where the game ends if 3 mistakes are made; especially on the very first game when a player is still trying to understand how your app functions in terms of number placement. In fact, I like to work my sudoku puzzles to completion and if I make an occasional mistake, I like the challenge of finding and fixing it. I do not want the game to kick me out. As a result your app is gone. I have plenty of other sudoku games to play that are both challenging and fun and they do not aggravate me with unnecessary restrictions.

I really enjoy the Sudoku app for the most part. I enjoy the challenges, though they recently made them so many levels that it is really difficult to complete the entire challenge without spending a ridiculous amount of time playing the game - I think the previous number of games was much more reasonable.

My main complaint about the game is when you have an expert game that comes down to “Bowman’s bingo”, where you have to play the game forward in your head to see whether a number works in a square or not. Without being able to take notes on these moves I lose my place trying to remember all of the moves in my head, so it is frustrating to get stuck in these situations in a game. I wish they had a way to take notes specifically for Bowman’s bingo situations, so I wouldn’t have to try to memorize the moves. I often use a hint just so I don’t have to write it out on paper, but I dislike using hints.

I love this game. The daily challenges are fun, and the events can be challenging, but they have ads that hug the number pad so close that often times my finger will accidently touch them when I'm trying to enter a number. As a result, the full add loads up and covers the game screen in the middle of play. When this happens you have to get out of the advertisement, remember what you were trying to do, and go back to the square you were working on when the ad popped up. I don't mind watching an ad or two between each game, but when these ads pop up in the middle of play it is very distracting. If they had a little more space between the ad bar and the number pad, it would fix this problem. The game itself is awesome, but the placement of the ad bar so close to the number pad has become such a distraction to me that I'll be looking for another sudoku game to take the place of this one.

Almost everything about Sudokucom is great! It operates smoothly, it’s very straightforward, gameplay is fairly natural. I started playing sudoku on Sudokucom and I’m totally addicted. Ads are very light and often skipable, though they do put a large ad box dangerously close to a frequent click area... 😏
My hobby is to play a few games a day, trying to beat my previous time records and average times, and to learn a new technique here and there.
Unfortunately I’ve been encountering a bug more and more often which infuriates me; the clock will fail to count, and can sometimes be stopped during a game by accident, skewing my results. This has happened to me in every category, so now I know none of my fastest times. It’s also happening almost 1/3 games now, or more, and I don’t catch it until I’m done because I’m so focused.
Please fix! Then it will be 💯!

If you’re a fairly serious and/or conservative Sudoku athlete (commonly referred to, and pronounced as “Sudoke-letes”)(yes, I literally made that up) then you’ll love Sudokucom...
It’s got a lot of different difficulty options, a timer, hints if you need them, as well as tips for strategy here and there. You can make notations, and it keeps track of your best times for each difficulty level.
There isn’t much in the way of sound, just enough to contribute to the in-game actions without disrupting your gameplay, however, as I write this I can’t remember if I changed my sound settings to be as minimal as possible, either way you won’t be bothered by sound.
The only MINOR drawback is how sensitive the numbers are as you tap them, so you learn quickly to be very deliberate with your moves. Oh yeah, and it keeps track of your mistakes during your gameplay and let’s you know if you’ve made one, but be careful, three strikes and you’re out!!!!
Occasionally they put out these challenges that you can participate in to earn trophies, these trophies remain stored in your trophy case. The challenges are usually along the lines of completing a certain number of puzzles that vary in difficulty, it adds a little bit more game to the game.
Basically, like I said at the beginning, this is a well designed app for we Sudoke-letes, you won’t be disappointed.

I was obsessed with Sudokucom when I first downloaded it about a month or so ago and would play several games for literally hours. I took a break from it for a week before coming back to it and I don’t know if it updated or something while I was away from it, but there are a few things now that I greatly dislike. For one, I don’t like that once I’ve used one of the numbers up it just disappears; I feel like the challenge is not noticing when I’ve used the numbers up or not and I think this new change is unnecessary. Secondly, now I see that if you put a number incorrectly in the square three times then you lose the game altogether and you have to start the whole game over. This is extremelyyyyyy annoying because I hate games where I have a small amount of times to do well in a game. What is the purpose of having “tries”? Why not continue letting me make my mistakes until I finish the round? Why interrupt me in the middle of analyzing the puzzle? Sometimes I’ll accidentally press a number by accident and so this makes it even more annoying because I hadn’t meant to use up a “try”.

I wish Sudokucom would go back to the way it was before because now I don’t play it as often and even deleted it for a few days because I was so annoyed.

When I first got this game, I had only played sudoku a few times, but I remember loving it! So when I saw the ad for it, I thought to try it out! When I did I was instantly hooked! I was able to set what puzzle I wanted and was able to understand the directions clearly! I was hooked instantly. The only thing that I had a problem with was the three tries thing. But by reading a couple of reviews myself, I found that all you had to do was open Sudokucom , go to the gear option, and change I could turn off the three tries option by clicking the “Mistakes Limit” switch. I found it a little hard to get to, maybe putting the option in a place more obvious like making the icon bigger or just not having the option to begin with. Other than this small problem, I love this game and can’t wait to see how it continues to grow!

Update: The weird game-in-game mode is gone and the original game is back!! Adjusted my ratings- Thank you!

PS-I have no problems with ads like other reviewers; they’re easy to turn off in settings.

Have been playing this game for a long time, and this really was my go-to relaxation, but the latest update is horrible!

-The level selection at the start is annoying.
-Then the forced ‘choose your daily bonus’; I don’t want any bonus!! I just want to play sudoku!
-Then the 3 strikes and you have to watch an ad to continue is highly annoying and frustrating. I know I can turn off the mistake limit, but I can’t turn off this new ‘game mode’. These updates to the game are annoying and horrible and make me dislike a previously fun and relaxing game.
-Also, suddenly the ads at the end of each game have become much, much longer.

I’d think the developers should think about why people play Sudoku (a classic ‘brian game’!) before doing ad placement and updates in this way. Too bad you ruined a great game just so you could charge more for ads and ad-free play!

Update:
To the developers response; Did you read my review?! I said I know I can turn it off- but I can’t turn off the stupid game mode!! And I did send a message through the help section too, so this reply completely missed the boat.

Sudoku, it’s an age old game. Countless apps on Sudokucom Store for it. So please tell me WHY ON EARTH there needs to be so many ads??? I hope the developers know that there is NOTHING special about Sudokucom’s game play that would warrant me sitting through a 10-20 sec ad after every game (regardless of whether or not I win). The UI of the actual game is clunky: I constantly mistype numbers bc they’re so close to each other, accidentally tap the ad banner at the bottom (redirecting me to a whole different screen), nothing special or catchy about number input, too many steps to switch from notes to numbers (important for when ur trying to beat a time), the list goes on. I know there isn’t a perfect app, I get it. But with all this in mind, devs continue to shove the most LITERALLY THE MOST ANNOYING ads Ive ever seen down our throats. Instead I can and I will go download one of the numerous sudoku apps at our disposal currently available on Sudokucom Store that actually PRIORITIZES user experience over $$$$$$.

I really like this! Great puzzle game to wake up to with a cup of coffee and get my brain started. Small areas for improvement might be to:
1) have an option for “random” level of puzzle difficulty. It’s great to do the daily challenge and then find out it the level once you completed it because it’s part of the fun to guess the difficulty level (for me at least).
2) I have been doing the daily challenges for almost a year before the current ones (going back to do the ones I didn’t do before). So having an easier way to scroll through the previous months / years of puzzles would be helpful (similar to the calendar setup for iPhone where you can go month by month or view it as a yearly display and click on a certain month).

Overall though love Sudokucom ! Keep up the awesome work!

Love having this game in my phone except for two important issues. First, and most important by far, I wish there were an option to fill in all candidates automatically. Filling in candidates is pure rote. It takes no thought but is just a tedious, plodding chore before you get to the real “thinking” game. I am at the expert level and want to spend my time thinking logically and strategically, not doing a time consuming rote exercise. I do a Sudoku on my PC and the automatic fill in option is there. So much more fun. Second, it is kind of annoying to be charged with an error because you forgot to switch from “off” to “on” or visa versa when playing . That’s not a substantive error but a bit of carelessness. You mean to enter a possible candidate and get charged with an error because you forgot to click on “ on” and end up actually selecting a number. I guess the game can’t divine your intent. Anyway, 5 stars with auto Mac fill in of candidates.

Recently finished all the available daily challenges up to current, looks like only goes back about two years. I play all the levels easy to expert based on time available and how relaxing, levels seem pretty good mix of difficulty. Would like to see more badges or challenges or some kind of themes for backgrounds.
Have tried various sudoku games, this is the one I have kept going back to and do at least one game daily. Like that can go back and do previous daily challenges.
Maybe would like option to replay particular boards where I previously took longer than average or had too many errors and had to retry.
Only annoying thing is the ads have been getting longer and longer, video, and sometimes when I do not feel I have touched anything in the middle of playing it sends me to Sudokucom Store as if an ad has been triggered.

I am a fan of Sudokucom other than battery usage. I am assuming that the all white background is what is drawing down my normally excellent battery? Perhaps I will change my phone’s screen brightness settings and see if that helps. Otherwise, this is a great version of the classic game.

Update: Now that I have been playing for a few weeks I have another annoyance to note. All it takes is bumping the bottom of the screen, fat fingers, or forgetting to switch back into note mode to cause a “mistake.” Three mistakes and you’re out! I understand that you can switch this off, but I would rather there were more than three mistakes allowed in this mode. I have lost multiple games due to these unintentional mistakes which had nothing to do with gamesmanship.

There is no cushion between the advertisements and the bottom of the gameplay area which causes the advertisement’s links to be bumped and new windows to pop up regularly.

These puzzles are maddeningly more difficult than the last sudoku app I had on my phone. They make me feel like an utter moron for a long while before I finally crack them and feel like a superhero. The controls menu could be a little clearer (for example, “New Game” is misleading; I’d change it to “Options”), but overall the puzzle interface is intuitive and easy to use.

However, the incredibly long and unskippable ads for BS Candy Crush clones or Clash of Clans-style phone RPGs really dampen my joy. What’s worse, they play before they show my final time/score, which adds a certain dread that creeps up during the home stretch of finishing a game in anticipation of the annoyance. Because of this, I rarely play more than one game at a time. I would gladly pay for a pro version to make these intrusive between-game ads go away. The puzzles are my new favorite daily challenge, but the annoying ads keep Sudokucom from five stars.

As a senior, doctors said, "try new things," ie Games, music, etc. to spark and re-route brain cells. This Suduko is part of a 3 or 4 game self-challenge I use to check speed, problem solving & comprehension. I like this iphone Suduko better than the other app I tried. Timing and thinking have to do with whether I'm ill or not, and what effect medication change has on my brain. Also, the games are FUN❗️
It's been a bit of adjustment for my ego to realize I may never get the speed of the players younger and healthier than I am, when I make comparisons. I have played against myself and love to see the improvement.
I also like the difficulty options, according to the needs of my condition.
I'm impressed with the people who create the programs for these games. You are all probably the age of my grandsons, approaching 30 years of age.
Thanks, SandyB 👩🏼/👵🏼 🐬👍🏼

The design covers all the bases: intuitiveness, numbers that disappear when all have been used, the ability to put in numbers that are still viable, good difficulty levels. There are, however, a couple of things I’m not overly fond of. 1) I have the sound off but the ads almost always are extremely loud. The sound is off so I can play the game when any noise wouldn’t be appropriate. Why would I want annoyingly sudden and loud sounds? Is there a paid version without ads? 2) I also turned off the time feature; at least I thought I did. Even though I don’t see the timer while playing, my time is still shown at the end, along with some sort of inane congratulatory message. I am totally not interested in being timed. It would nice if we could turn that really off.